Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress
A source page for quotes linked to Francine du Plessix Gray.
“Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.”
“The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.”
“how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.”
“I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.”
“Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.”
“I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.”
“We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.”
“Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.”